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## kops upgrade

Upgrade a kubernetes cluster.

### Synopsis

Automates checking for and applying Kubernetes updates. This upgrades a cluster to the latest recommended production ready k8s version. After this command is run, use kops update cluster and kops rolling-update cluster to finish a cluster upgrade.

### Examples

```
  # Upgrade a cluster's Kubernetes version.
  kops upgrade cluster kubernetes-cluster.example.com --yes --state=s3://kops-state-1234
```

### Options

```
  -h, --help   help for upgrade
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --alsologtostderr                  log to standard error as well as files
      --config string                    yaml config file (default is $HOME/.kops.yaml)
      --log_backtrace_at traceLocation   when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace (default :0)
      --log_dir string                   If non-empty, write log files in this directory
      --log_file string                  If non-empty, use this log file
      --log_file_max_size uint           Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes. If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited. (default 1800)
      --logtostderr                      log to standard error instead of files (default true)
      --name string                      Name of cluster. Overrides KOPS_CLUSTER_NAME environment variable
      --skip_headers                     If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
      --skip_log_headers                 If true, avoid headers when opening log files
      --state string                     Location of state storage (kops 'config' file). Overrides KOPS_STATE_STORE environment variable
      --stderrthreshold severity         logs at or above this threshold go to stderr (default 2)
  -v, --v Level                          number for the log level verbosity
      --vmodule moduleSpec               comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered logging
```

### SEE ALSO

* [kops](kops.md)	 - kops is Kubernetes ops.
* [kops upgrade cluster](kops_upgrade_cluster.md)	 - Upgrade a kubernetes cluster.

